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...species perhaps 150,000 years later--that brings Aladar and his pals back to a barren mainland and the lad's struggle to assert the values of a new masculine style in a sere landscape where the dino herd is ruled by the cranky and politically incorrect Kron (Samuel E. Wright...
...Detwiler & Co. Ads tout the latest in laser treatments with impossible results: "Made Me Look 20 Years Younger in Just Days!" or "Laser Hair Removal: 5 Year Guarantee!" "No one wants to undergo the knife, so they look at the laser as some sort of magic wand," says Joan Kron, 71, author of Lift: Wanting, Fearing and Having a Facelift, her 1998 primer on facial surgery. "It's a very exciting field. But it's a double-edged 'light' sword, because there's a lot of bamboozling out there...
Like any good soloist, Kron makes effective use of the stage. She literally throws her weight around--knocking down podiums, attempting what appears to be a combination somersault-cartwheel. At one point she spontaneously begins dancing to a disco tune only she can hear. She goes out on her limbs to earn a rapport with the audience--definitely a good thing even if it's a bit like the creepy connection you might develop with the exhibits at a not-so-freaky freakshow...
Solo shows are a dangerous business. They imply that one individual can carry the stage and the audience, that another actor on stage would be a frivolous waste. Kron rises to the challenge, while cynically admitting, "Maybe I use being a lesbian as a crutch." Not so much a crutch, her sexual orientation becomes, as the stories progress, a gimmick which loses its potency, as does her performance as a whole...
...Kron's standup doesn't launch a thousand ships of raucous laughter, but it does send off a fleet of mirthful and giggling little paper boats--enough humiliation for a lifetime...